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Asking sharper questions of a text

English · Reading Comprehension · ages 17-18

Name ______________________ Date ____________

Before applying a critical lens to a text, what should you do first?
- Summarise its claim, reasons and evidence fairly
- Judge it before reading closely
- Select a lens and keep only details that fit it
What is a critical lens?
- A verdict to stamp on any text
- A set of questions for reading a text
- A fixed conclusion supplied by a critical theory
A lens is a verdict you apply to a text.
Circle one: True False
One lens reads a feast scene as celebration, another as satire. What should decide between the two readings?
- The reading that best matches the lens chosen before examining the scene
- The reading that fits the scene's cheerful setting without checking its tone
- The reading the quoted lines support better
Which pair of questions directly examines who receives service and benefits from power in a passage?
- Who is served and who gains
- Which words show attitude
- Whose work goes unnamed
Reading through two lenses can show what each brings out that the other misses.
Circle one: True False
Nadia claims a narrator mocks the rich but points at no lines. What is wrong?
- The claim needs only a familiar lens, not quoted support
- The narrator's attitude is clear enough to need no evidence
- No lines cited, so it is a guess
A lens on unseen labour surfaces nothing quotable after a full pass. What is the honest move?
- Keep the lens because its theory should explain every passage
- Log that it found nothing, then drop it
- Take absence as proof of hidden labour

Answer key

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Summarise its claim, reasons and evidence fairly · First understand the text's claim, reasons and evidence, then judge it.
A set of questions for reading a text · A lens is a way of asking, not an answer in advance.
False · It is a way of asking questions, not a pre-written answer.
The reading the quoted lines support better · Only words on the page can back one reading over the other.
Who is served and who gains · Questions about service and gain identify who benefits from power. The other choices ask about tone or unnamed work rather than directly identifying those beneficiaries.
True · Comparing the two views shows what each brings out that the other misses.
No lines cited, so it is a guess · A reading without quotable support is not yet a reading.
Log that it found nothing, then drop it · A lens need not explain every passage. Missing evidence does not prove that labour is hidden. Record that this lens found nothing, then drop it.